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I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.

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Steve Almond

I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry toward novels and away from short stories. They're seen as D. O. A. in the marketplace, which seems nuts to me, given that various collections done smashingly and deservedly well in economic terms.

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We need books. . . because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

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Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

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The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

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